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Simplicity is worth buying if we do not have to pay too great a loss of precision for it. - George Pólya
" "Simplicity is worth buying if we do not have to pay too great a loss of precision for it.
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About George Pólya
George Pólya (December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985) was a Hungarian mathematician and professor of mathematics at ETH Zürich and at Stanford University. His work on heuristics and pedagogy has had substantial and lasting influence on mathematical education, and has also been influential in artificial intelligence.
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Pólya György
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George Polya
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One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection with each other, and no connection at all with anything else. We have a natural opportunity to investigate the connections of a problem when looking back at its solution.
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